Biography | Tim Cook — The Industrial Engineering Degree Taken on This Campus
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Biography | Tim Cook — The Industrial Engineering Degree Taken on This Campus
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People treat a technology chief's first degree as a computer-science line from a coastal campus.
The degree he finished was industrial engineering, inland, on this Auburn quad.
Cook enrolled after Robertsdale High School and took the university's cooperative-education path.
He received a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from Auburn University in 1982.
The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering sits on West Magnolia Avenue.
The industrial and systems engineering department keeps its offices in that college.
He later endowed a leadership scholarship and a professorship in the same department and chaired its alumni council.
In 2010 he came back to speak at commencement.
In 2021 the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers gave him its Captains of Industry Award at a ceremony on this campus before the Iron Bowl.
In February 2026 Auburn recorded his election to the National Academy of Engineering as a 1982 industrial-engineering alumnus.
The pin is the engineering college, not a private room.
Cook is a living executive.
Photo: William J. Samford Hall, Robert S. Donovan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Portrait: Tim Cook in 2017, Austin Community College, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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